--- title: Think of it as a family quiz night: Grandad shouts the questions fro… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: Think of it as a family quiz night: Grandad shouts the questions from the kitchen, everybody grabs a pencil, and every answer can be checked, letter by letter or rule by rule. Who acts: you, Grandad, everybody, letter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Grandad, everybody, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:1 # text = Think of it as a family quiz night: Grandad shouts the questions from the kitchen, everybody grabs a pencil, and every answer can be checked, letter by letter or rule by rule. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 quiz quiz NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 24 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | night | of quiz | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Grandad | the questions | | the kitchen | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic | | 3 | **grab** | present | everybody | a pencil | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | | 4 | **check** | can · passive | | every answer | | | | letter by letter by rule or rule *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **letter** | | letter by rule or rule | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: by=agent | | 6 | **letter** | | rule | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: by=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The big language quiz, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/0/) - next →: [The big language quiz, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/)